Connectors with brushes and pins which slide along electrical guides for home, business or industrial installations

• US 8,469,726 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2009
• Issued: 06/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sistemas Metalper, S.L.
• Original Assignee: Sistemas Metalper, S.L.
• Inventors: Perales Fayos, Angel
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, HIEN D
• Application Number:
  US12/992,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20110070754A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,517 Days
• Field of Search: 439/110, 439/119, 439/120
• US Class Current: 439/110
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/78 with additional earth or shield contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/142 Their counterparts

Abstract

Female connectors which slide along some guides in home, business or industrial installations and allow electricity to be transported from one point to another without the need for extension cables. The connector slides along the guide which includes, in the interior thereof, some electrical brushes connected to some brass connectors which transport the electricity towards the poles of a male connector from some tracks which, in turn, are connected to the mains or the general electrical installation. Alternatively, the connector slides along some guides having electrical pins which are connected to the general electrical installation via the tracks.

Claims

1. An electric connector assembly, comprising:

a connector; and

a guide member for use in home, business or industrial installations,

wherein said connector is designed from a female connector, said female connector being connected through a horizontal section to a sliding piece;

wherein said sliding piece is inserted along inside the guide member;

wherein said sliding piece includes brushes connected to the female connector;

wherein said connector has standard terminals;

wherein said brushes are connected to said female connector by a selection of;

copper solid cables and keys, or electrical cables;

wherein the brushes contact tracks housed in recesses of the guide member;

wherein ground connection is connected through the contact of a metallic spring with track housed in a recess, which conducts an electrical ground current; and

wherein said metallic spring is screwed to a first end of an inner threaded rod connected, by a second end thereof, to a standard strip of the female connector, and wherein the female connector is configured to slide along the guide member, the guide member having two parts or flaps, the female connector and the guided member being made of plastic or PVC material suitable to withstand temperatures and voltages of a transported electricity.

4. The electrical connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein the guide member is configured to be directly connected to an electrical network.

5. The electrical connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein the brushes are graphite or carbon.

2. An electric connector assembly, comprising:

a connector; and

a guide member for use in home, business or industrial installations,

wherein said connector is designed from a female connector, said female connector being configured to be connected to a protective box;

wherein the female connector is disconnectable from an independent sliding piece;

said independent sliding piece centrally comprising equidistant slots in a horizontal section of said independent piece, thereby generating a series of aligned square connectors, and first pins extending from the protective box, and being anchored to each of said square connectors;

said first pins being in constant contact with tracks located in staggered housings of an upper flap;

said upper flap of the guide member by tight and crisscrossed assembly with a lower flap of the guide member;

a hollowed notch fitted into the horizontal section of the independent sliding piece;

said hollowed notch protruding from the rear part of the box at a position selected between a middle, top and bottom area;

said hollowed notch being joined to the box forming a single piece;

wherein the box is joined to the female connector; and

wherein prior to the screwed assembly of the box, second pins are connected to connectors housed inside the female connector such that the second pins are immobilized and wherein the female connector is configured to slide along the guide member, the guide member having two parts or flaps, the female connector and the guide member being made of plastic or PVC material suitable to withstand temperatures and voltages of a transported electricity.

3. The electrical connector assembly according to claim 2, wherein the guide member reserves an open longitudinal space creating a slot;

the female connector being configured to move forward or backward fitting the horizontal section into the slot, and being configured to be slid along thereof with the first pins contacting the tracks;

wherein the female connector or the independent sliding piece include, at any location, warning lights indicating electrical presence and absence in the guide member;

wherein plugs are capable of being installed at initial or final sections of the guide member;

said plugs configured to temporarily connect and disconnect the guide member with respect to the home, business or industrial installation.